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AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!

Phoronix: AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!

Today it's now time where the fglrx driver reaches yet another milestone. Not only does today's release address many of the outstanding bugs for the earlier GPU generations while also introducing a few new features, but it also delivers AIGLX support! Yes, you read that right. You can finally run your ATI graphics card with the fglrx driver and run Compiz, Beryl, or Compiz Fusion without using XGL! This is coming 13 months after NVIDIA had introduced its AIGLX support, but now just days after the release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon it's here for ATI hardware. Granted, if you were using an older ATI GPU with the open-source Radeon driver, you could have been benefiting from AIGLX already.

AIGLX, But Not Really

I'm using a Mobility Radeon X1400 with Ubuntu 7.10, and when I try to start Compiz (or Beryl), the whole screen goes grey. I can move my mouse cursor around (it even changes to text- or hand-style cursor as I move over my invisible windows), but I can't see anything!

I'm using a Mobility Radeon X1400 with Ubuntu 7.10, and when I try to start Compiz (or Beryl), the whole screen goes grey. I can move my mouse cursor around (it even changes to text- or hand-style cursor as I move over my invisible windows), but I can't see anything!

Will this driver allow those of us with two screens to run Compiz across both? Before with my ATI card I had to use xinerama, which compiz didn't support because apparently it only did textures up to 2048x2048. Now I have Gutsy and I read that xrandr is available and should alleviate these concerns, especially with this new driver?